Painful treatment possible for King Richard III's scoliosis

By Jeanna BrynerLiveScience King Richard III may not have been a hunchback as portrayed by Shakespeare, but he did suffer from the spine-curving condition scoliosis, and he may have undergone painful medical treatments to straighten it out, scientists reported Friday.Archaeologists announced in February that bones excavated from underneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, belonged to the medie...    

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